Safety-pin



(No Model.)

W. F. HYATT.

SAFETY PIN. I H

I Patented Mar. 21,1882.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OF ICE.

i \VILLlAlVF F. HYATT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SAFETY-PIN.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,293, dated March 21, 1882,

Application filed July 22, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. HYATT, of Brooklyn, in Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate particularly to those safety-pins which consist essentially of a wirebent to form two limbs with an intermediate spring, one limb having a shield permanently aftixedto it, and the otherlimb being adapted to engage with such shield.

The object of my improvementsis to produce the spring for such a pin in a simple and inexpensive manner.

The improvementconsistsin asat'ety-pin comprising two limbs, each havinga bend extending laterally beyond it and a bend at the junction of the limbs, all the said bends being in the same plane with the limbs, and a shield, as hereinafter fully described.

vIn the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of a safety-pin embodying my improvements; and Fig. 2 is a side view of a safetypi n of modified form, also embodying my improvements.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A and B designate the two limbs of the spring. Between or at the junction of these (No model.)

two limbs are several wrinkles, corrugations, or bends, which form a spring of considerable extent, affording all vnecessary resilience between the limbs of the pin. In each pin shown in the drawings there are three wrinkles, corrugations, or bends. The pin shown in Fig.1 has two wrinkles, corrugations, or bends, a, extending laterally outward beyond thelimbs, and an intermediate inwardly extending wrinkle, corrugation, or bend, b. In the pin shown in Fig.2 all the wrinkles, corrugations, or bends a I) extend outward. These springs throughout their extent are in the same plane with the limbs of the pins. To the ends of the limbs A of these-pins shields O are rigidly attached, and the pointed ends of the limbsB may be engaged with and protected by the shields G.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The safety-pin consisting of the limbs A B, the bends a extending laterally outward beyond thelimbs, and the bend 1) between or at the junction of the limbs, all said bends being in the same plane with the limbs, and the shield O, substz'intially as specified.

W. F. HYATT. Witnesses:

T. J. KEANE, J AS. R. BOWEN. 

